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Tuesday, October 24, 1987 Griffin Daily News
UAW Expects
Contract OK
By DAVID W. CHUTE
DETROIT (UPI) — United
Auto Workers President Walter
Reuther today took his hard
won and record setting settle
ment with Ford Motor Co. to
jhis 160,000 Ford members,
'confident they would ratify it
I “They will exercise their good
'Judgement and ratify the
agreement because they will
[realize that we have made
'substantial progress for every
'Ford worker,” said Reuther.
j But as he spoke following
'Union's 300-man Ford Council
'meeting Monday night, about
250 skilled tradesmen chanted
"no, no, no,” in the background.
This year, for the first time, the
skilled tradesmen have the
power to veto the national
contract.
"Lord forgive them for they
know not what they do,”
Reuther said in reply to the
chant.
Near Unanimous Approval
The council overwhelmingly
accepted the tentative settle
ment just before midnight
Monday. Reuther said about 98
per cent of the delegates voted
in favor of the new three-year
pact calling for a sl.Ol an hour
raise in the third year.
If the union’s Ford workers
accept the new pact, Ford
assembly lines could start
rolling before the end of the
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Ford’s 93 plants in 25 states
have been still for 48 days,
since the old contract expired at
midnight, Sept. 6.
The Ford Council, composed
of delegates from 61 local
unions across the country,
deliberated for almost four
hours before taking the final
vote. Only a smattering of
hands went up against the
motion to accept the contract,
which will raise the average
Ford worker’s salary by $1,700
in the third year of the pact.
The deadline for ratification
of the new contract is 8 p.m.
Wednesday, said Reuther,
emerging from the meeting.
Immediate Pay Hike
After marathon bargaining
sessions in the last 12 days of
gruelling talks, Reuther and his
team of negotiators Sunday
tentatively accepted a Ford
offer that would immediately
sweeten the average Ford
worker’s paycheck by 20 cents
an hour. It would also give
skilled tradesmen an additional
30 cents per hour in each year
of the contract on top of the
increases going to production
workers.
The skilled workers, members
of a group calling itself the
"dollar -an - hour - now commit
tee,” however, were demanding
boosts of $1 per hour in every
year of the contract even before
negotiations began three months
ago. Reuther predicted they
would ratify the pact.
Reuther has scheduled a
television appearance on a local
station for noon today, presu
mably to explain the terms of
the contract to the workers and
to urge them to approve the
agreement.
SNOWED UNDER
ALPHA. Mich. (UPl)—The
Alpha city manager is also
required to be a truck driver,
snowplow operator, street admi
nistrator, sewer and village
plant operator, village marshal,
supervisor and general overseer
of all village property and
activities.
Eugene Houlmont resigned
the post to devote more time to
his pulp and Christmas tree
business—his full time job.
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EYE OPENERS—The three co-winners of the Nobel Prize for
Medicine: In Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Prof. George Wald,
60, gets a congratulatory kiss from wife Ruth; at Oxford,
England, Swedish-born Prof. Ragnar Granit sits with con
gratulatory telegrams in his office. Inset: Prof. Haldan
Hartline of Rockefeller Institute, New York. They won for
eye research in "the primary chemical and physiological
visual processes in. the eye.”
For Men
Stroke Rate High
In Southeast Area
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — A
team of 12 physicians reports
that the death rate from heart
disease varies widely from
place to place in the United
States, with men in the South
east most likely to die of
strokes.
But scientists were unable to
explain why the rate varies as
much as 50 deaths per 100,000
population in Colorado to near
ly 250 in parts of South Caro
lina.
The physicians told the clos
ing session of the American
Heart Association’s 40th annual
meeting that a new study is
now under way to attempt to
determine all factors which
might cause the difference.
Involved in the original study
were nine geographical areas,
three with low stroke death
rates, three with intermediate
rates and three with high rates.
The physicians found no dif
ference between areas in the
methods used by medical exam
iners in writing death certifi
cates, so the team was able
“for the first time to establish
that people live longer in one
area than they do in another,”
said one of the physicians, Dr.
Nemat Borhani.
Regional differences were dis
covered in death rates in 1965
and early 1966 among men and
women aged 45 to 74. The vari
ance for women followed the
same regional lines, but the
differences were not as great.
The death rate for other
diseases, such as coronary ar
tery disease, high blood pres
sure and diabetes, was also
higher in the areas with high
stroke death rates, the study
found.
Examiner
Rules Against
Union Claim
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A fed
eral labor examiner has ruled
against a union complaint that
an Albany, Ga. firm engaged
in unfair labor practices in
polling employes on the union’s
popularity.
The dispute erupted when Lll
lison Implement Co. polled its
employes after it “was made
aware of employe dissatisfac
tion” with the labor organiza
tion. The poll, in July of 1965,
took place a year after the In
ternational Union of District 50,
United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, began representing the em
ployes.
Mansgement at the time re
ported finding 167 workers dis
satisfied with the union while
26 wanted the labor group to
continue representing them.
The firm said it' would no
longer deal with the union, and
the union complained to the Na
tional Labor Relations Board.
Trial examiner Harold X.
Summers Monday recommended
dismissal of the complaint.
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Lax NASA Is Fumbling
Success in Space Race
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
It is no accident things have gone wrong and the Saturn V
shot will be delayed probably until sometime in November.
The conditions that led up to the dreadful Apollo fire that
killed Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissojji, Lt. Col. Edward H. White
and Lt. Comdr. Roger B. Chaffee have not been corrected.
A few men have been fired, allowed to resign or been
transferred.
A new layer of supervision has been put on top of the old.
But things haven’t changed much, according to some men
close to the program.
Today, nine months after the event, it is becoming appall
ingly clear the Apollo fire was no accident but inevitable
result of sloppy management supervision by the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The fire hazard may well have been licked. But no adequate
management system has been set up to replace the haphaz
ard, easy-going system that was responsible for .the fire.
Incompetent NASA managers are not removed because
they have friends in powerful places who could make trouble
for the men who do the removing.
NASA officials are afraid to force some contractors to raise
their standards for fear these contractors would cause them
difficulties in Congress.
A great deal of time and energy is spent jockeying for
power, and position in NASA. Individual success may depend
on how well a man plays the political game.
According to this reporter’s sources, topflight technical
men are turned down because they don’t meet the political
criteria.
The problem is not only a lack of adequate supervision of
companies working on Saturn V, Apollo and other space pro
jectsand their components. The problem is that the top men
at NASA do not adequately ride herd on the men below them.
Some of the top men are “nice guys.” They want to please
everyone. They won’t clamp down on their subordinates to
achieve the super-high standards necessary if the United
States is to win the space race and win it with maximum
safety to the astronauts involved.
* HS f of proper supervision in turn has encouraged
some field officers supervising NASA projects in the field to
become even more lax in their overseeing of the quality of
rkm /! nshl ,P b y the contractors making key components and
as^r e * l^ « ies ior s P ace vehicles and engines.
NASA headquarters is in Washington. The top men here
are responsible to the President and Congress for the space
programs The direct, on-the-spot supervision of the pro
-8 n a ii. 0f c ? u ,a S ?’ 1S n o™ahy conducted in the field.
mac a l hou f h U . has the ultimate responsibility and authority.
NASA headquarters apparently has very little control over its
own fie d operations. Managers and engineers in the field
frequently defy their superiors in Washington.
what s needed is a thoroughgoing shake-up in N4SA fn
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THE DOCTOR SAY 3
Causes, Treatment
Os Cracked Skin Vary
By Wayne G. Brandstadt, M.D.
Q—The ends of my thumbs
crack and bleed. Changes of
weather or location make no
difference. Ointments have been
used without success. What
would you suggest?
A—Since there are several
possible causes, no single
treatment will benefit all
persons with this rather
common condition. The skin of
your thumbs may be unusually
thick or abnormally thin.
Exposure to oils, strong soaps or
some substance to which you
sure allergic may be the cause.
Aging, with Its attendant
hardening of the arteries, may
also be a factor. In some
persons a diet deficient In
protein or vitamins Is the cause.
If soothing ointments, such as
Lassar’s paste, do not help you,
you should cover the cracked
skin with an adhesive bandage
dut, most important, have your
doctor find the cause and
eliminate it.
Q—Can one .have scoliosis
without torticollis,? What causes
these conditions? Is there any
cure?
i A—Scoliosis is an S-shaped
curvature of the spine and
torticollis is wryneck. It is
possible — in fact usual — to
have one of these conditions
without the other. Scoliosis may
be caused by poliomyelitis,
muscular dystrophy or poor
posture in childhood. Mild
degrees require no treatment. If
the condition is recognized
during childhood It can be
corrected by the wearing of a
spinal brace or body cast.
Torticollis may be caused by
an injury to the neck muscles on
one side at birth. The injured
muscles develop tough scar
tissue which contracts and pulls
the head toward the affected
side. The treatment is surgical
removal of the scar tissue.
Spasmodic wryneck developing
later in life Is another matter.
Some persons with this condition
are helped by an operation in
which a cryosurgical probe (one
cooled to subsero temperature)
Is used to destroy a minute area
of the brain. This treatment is
considered experimental.
Q—l get high altitude sickness
when I go to Lake Tahoe. Is
there any cure for this?
A—Mountain sickness is
caused by the fact that at high
altitudes the air contains less
oxygen than at sea level. Recent
studies Indicate that actazola
mlde (Diamox) Increases the
body’s tolerance to this type of
air hunger. It is available only
on prescription.
Please send your questions
and comments to Wayne G.
Brandstadt, M.D., in care of this
paper. While Dr. Brandstadt
cannot answer individual letters
he will answer letters of general
Interest In future columns.
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